Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Lior Kesos
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 12:09 +0200, Aaron wrote: > I am guessing that this is on purpose? > You did catch that I was trying to run as root. > I sometimes find that some tabs or addons to mozilla only will install > if I (gasp) run mozilla as root. he tabs addons or whatever get installed typicall

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Aaron
Thanks to everyone on the list for all their answers with my no display question. You guy are great, not only did I get a quick fix but a tutorial in X. I infact didn't understand how X works at all, so my simple question got me some great answers. Thanks again, Aaron ==

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Aaron
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004, Aaron wrote about "Re: no display": I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. This

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Ehud Karni
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Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004, Aaron wrote about "Re: no display": > I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. > Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. > In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. > > This only happ

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:09:17PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > Well thanks, > > I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. > Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. > In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. > > This only happens in Debia

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:01:04PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > You may be surprised that root can't do something that an ordinary user > can, but X-Windows authentication actually works differently from the > ordinary Unix permission model, because it is aimed to work across hosts, > not just on

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Aaron
responses. this pretty much solves this for me Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: no display": On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:07:01PM +0200, Aaron wrote: theone:/home/aamehl# xev Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xl

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: no display": > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:07:01PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > > > theone:/home/aamehl# xev > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: No protocol specified > >

Re: no display

2004-01-25 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Lior Kesos wrote: > on the prompt with the user that activated the X server enter - > user>xhost + > This is the dangerous way of using xhost: it allowes everyone to use your display. Better specify xhost +machine_from_which_I_execute Orna. =

Re: no display

2004-01-25 Thread Lior Kesos
on the prompt with the user that activated the X server enter - user>xhost + regards Lior. On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 13:07 +0200, Aaron wrote: > Hi all, > I remember having this problem years ago and that it was a simple fix > but I just can't remember how. > I try starting an X program and I get t

Re: no display

2004-01-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:07:01PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > theone:/home/aamehl# xev > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified what does 'xhost' say? does 'xhost +localhost' or 'xhost +' help? be aware that allowing X access (which is what xhost does) has security

RE: no display

2004-01-25 Thread Bouhnik, Samuel
Your hostname should be in the /etc/hosts file Samuel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aaron Sent: Sun 25-Jan-04 1:07 PM To: Linux-IL mailing list Cc: Subject: no display Hi all,